Comparison

NeuroNation vs NEATEdApp

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

NeuroNation

Enhance your memory and cognitive abilities with science-backed exercises. This app offers personalized training programs, diverse games, and progress tracking to sharpen your mind and improve focus. Invest in your cognitive health with daily mental challenges.

Highlights
  • Scientifically proven techniques
  • Personalized training programs
  • Diverse range of brain games
  • Progress tracking and insights
  • Daily brain challenges
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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NeuroNation - Brain Training Exercise your mind & memory Enhance your memory with science-backed exercises used by millions of users globally! Unlock the full potential of your brain with NeuroNation, the scientifically-backed app designed to boost your cognitive abilities. Whether you’re looking to improve your focus, sharpen your mind, or simply have fun with challenging games, our app offers a comprehensive solution. Features: Scientifically Proven Techniques: Leverage exercises to enhance your memory, attention, concentration, and problem-solving skills. NeuroNation's brain training has been awarded the AOK Leonardo Health Prize for Digital Prevention sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Health. Personalised Training Programs: Tailor-made sessions adapt to your performance, ensuring optimal challenge and growth. NeuroNation performs a comprehensive analysis of your strengths and potential and creates a customised brain training plan that meets your needs. Diverse Range of Games: Enjoy a variety of brain-stimulating activities including puzzles, memory and speed games, and logic challenges. Increase your thinking speed and concentration and improve your everyday mental performance. Progress Tracking: Monitor your improvement over time with detailed insights. As you improve, the tasks can become more complex, promoting continuous cognitive growth without plateaus. You can follow your progress closely and benchmark it against your peer group. Daily Challenges: Engage with new and exciting challenges to keep your brain active daily through NeuroBoosters. User-Friendly Interface: Navigate easily with our intuitive design, suitable for all ages and skill levels. Why NeuroNation? Regular brain exercises help strengthen neural connections, leading to better memory. Daily mental exercises promote neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. NeuroNation combines fun and effectiveness, making it easy to incorporate brain training into your daily routine. By using our app, you’re not just playing games — you’re investing in your cognitive health. In several studies conducted by the Department of General Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin and the Medical School of Hamburg, the effectiveness of NeuroNation working memory training was proven. Learn more about the science behind NeuroNation: The science behind NeuroNation | NeuroNation How It Works: Our exercises are developed to target specific cognitive functions. Through consistent practice, users can experience improved memory recall, faster information processing, and better daily mental abilities. The app adjusts the difficulty level based on your progress, ensuring that you’re always challenged but never overwhelmed. NEURONATION PREMIUM With NeuroNation Premium, you have access to: Comprehensive cognitive training program with more than 30 motivating exercises Brain training customisation and in-depth performance insights Regular publication of new exercises and courses PRICING AND TERMS OF CONDITIONS NeuroNation Premium Membership is available via the following subscription plans: 3 months from 41.99 USD* (13.99 USD*/month) 12 months from 83.99 USD* ( 6.99 USD*/month) *Prices displayed are in USD. Actual charges might be converted to your local exchange currency depending on your country of residence. Payments will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your Premium Membership (subscription) automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Our Terms of Use https://sso.neuronation.com/legals/tou Our Privacy policy: https://sso.neuronation.com/legals/dataprivacy The protection of your data is very important to us. We will never disclose information to third parties and will always treat your data with the strictest confidence.

About

NEATEdApp

Features
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NEATEd — Watch Neural Networks Evolve NEATEd is an interactive playground for the NEAT algorithm (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies) — implementing the genetic algorithm published by Stanley & Miikkulainen (2002) that grows neural networks node by node, generation by generation, in front of your eyes. Train AI agents to balance a pole on a cart, navigate a snake to find food, land a spacecraft on the Moon, beat a Pong opponent, or master Tic Tac Toe. Watch their networks start as a handful of input-to-output connections and gradually develop hidden nodes, recurrent loops, and complex topologies as evolution finds better solutions. WHO IT'S FOR • Computer science students learning evolutionary computation • AI educators and curriculum designers • Hobbyists curious about how neural architecture search actually works • Anyone who's read Stanley & Miikkulainen's NEAT paper and wanted to play with it WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL • Live network visualisation — every node, every connection, every weight, animated as evolution proceeds. • Side-by-side run comparison — pit two genomes against each other in real time. Verdict cards, trophy badges, fitness curves with aha-moment annotations, behavior radars and live action histograms tell you why one agent beat the other. • Reward shaping editor — tune food rewards, death penalties, and navigation bonuses for each game and watch the agent's behaviour change. • Six Evolution Strategies — Anti-Bloat, Aggressive Exploration, Conservative Refinement, Diversity Boost, Stochastic-Tuned, and Novelty Search (Lehman & Stanley 2008) for escaping deceptive optima. • Full configuration editor — every parameter from the published NEAT formulation: mutation rates, speciation coefficients, weight bounds, initial connection modes. With one-tap recommendations when a run gets stuck. • Built-in glossary — learn local optima vs deceptive optima the moment you encounter them. GAMES INCLUDED Free: CartPole, Snake. Pro: Lunar Lander, Pong, Tic Tac Toe — plus the full Lessons curriculum, full Config Editor, Compare Runs view, unlimited daily training runs, and saving / exporting genomes. LEARN BY DOING The Learn tab walks you through NEAT in 25+ interactive lessons: genomes, speciation, crossover, structural mutation, complexity penalties, novelty search. Daily Challenges give concrete goals — "reach fitness 500 on CartPole", "eat 5 food on Snake" — that turn into tangible results. BUILT IN SWIFT, BUILT FOR YOU Native macOS and iOS app. No cloud LLMs, no telemetry, no ads. Training runs stay on your device. Saved genomes sync via iCloud Drive. Power-aware: warns you before training drains the battery and pauses if your Mac gets too hot. DISSERTATION ORIGIN NEATEd grew out of an MEng Software Engineering dissertation — a Windows tool that wrapped the NEAT-Python library to make neuroevolution approachable for non-coders, exposing every config option through a friendly editor and walking users through the algorithm with built-in lessons. NEATEd is that vision reimagined as a polished native Mac and iOS app, with the NEAT engine independently re-implemented in Swift, plus live animated network visualisations, side-by-side comparison, reward-shaping, and modern evolution strategies the original couldn't easily provide. SUBSCRIPTION NEATed Pro: £12.99 / month or £59.99 / year (with a 7-day free trial). Auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. NEATed is an independent Swift implementation. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Kenneth O. Stanley, Risto Miikkulainen, the University of Texas, or the maintainers of neat-python. Open-source attributions are available in-app under More → Open-Source Licences. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/venetsia/NEATed-support/blob/main/PRIVACY_POLICY.md Terms of Use (EULA): https://github.com/venetsia/NEATed-support/blob/main/TERMS_OF_USE.md

Screenshots

NeuroNation4 screens
NEATEdApp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: NEATEdApp at none against NeuroNation's shown. NeuroNation's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. NeuroNation sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per 3 months and NEATEdApp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
NeuroNation versus NEATEdApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeuroNationNEATEdApp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size233 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSynaptikon GmbHVenetsia Krasteva

Bugs and requests

NeuroNation

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes or freezes on certain devices
  • Issues with color-based exercises due to color perception differences
  • Incorrect scoring or feedback on some exercises

Requested features

4 requests
  • More variety in exercise types
  • Ability to customize difficulty levels
  • Better progress tracking and performance analytics
  • Multilingual support

NEATEdApp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

NeuroNation

Subscriptions10
  • 3 Months - Subscription$10.993 Months
  • 6 Months - Subscription$10.996 Months
  • 3 Months - Subscription$13.993 Months
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  • NeuroNation Premium 1M plan$13.991 Month
  • 1 Month - Subscription App&Web$13.991 Month
  • 12 Months - Subscription$19.491 Year
  • 6 Months - Subscription$22.496 Months
  • 12 Months - Subscription$38.991 Year
  • NeuroNation Premium 12M plan$41.991 Year
  • Premium 12M plan+7D Free trial7 Days trial$57.991 Year
2 purchases

NEATEdApp

Subscriptions2
  • NEATed Pro · Monthly$12.991 Month
  • NEATed Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is NeuroNation free?
NeuroNation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NEATEdApp free?
NEATEdApp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NeuroNation or NEATEdApp have ads?
NeuroNation shows ads; NEATEdApp does not.

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